I was well and truly C.O.T with this one. Below is the offending hoax email that warranted this reply in my previous post. I maintain that it being Monday morning and all that my defences were down and as such was an easy target. Having said that, Johnny I doff my hat to you sir on a job well done.
Dear Sir,
It was with great interest that I came across your website a number of months back. I have always been an avid supporter of the rejuvenation of the Irish tongue in our native country. Having the youth of our country revitalise it using new media formats, perhaps not accessible to the older generations who have been carrying the flag up to now, is most encouraging, and for this I salute your efforts.
However I watched with growing anxiety over recent posts as it descended in quality, beginning with incitement to racial slander against our the Muslim neighbours who have braved inequality and injustice brought about on a global level by terrorism and the foreign policies of world leaders and on a more local level by the small mindedness of certain natives here in Ireland.
These posts kept occurring and, while I felt they might have been incidentally brought about by the choosing of pictures which might have drawn amusing remarks, have now become too numerous in number to ignore the fact that you are quite obviously a racist bigot. Please correct me if I am wrong in this regard, but I felt too strongly about the matter to stay silent.
The reason for my mail, and what you might call the straw that broke the camel’s back, is your most recent post, a picture of a group of unfortunate disabled men, attempting to live an enjoyable life, ignoring their obvious disadvantages by partaking in the sports that every young man aspires to, and you, as insensitive and arrogant as you have proved yourself to be in the past make a mockery of them, that you and your “buddies” can ridicule their valiant efforts.
Well done sir, you have truly out done yourself and I hope you are proud, it is individuals like yourself who undo the efforts of the good people in this world to bring a level of equality and respect to those who are racially disadvantaged or physically disadvantaged.
Finally I submit that, rather ironically, you are emotionally disabled in being able to laugh at those more unfortunate than you.
Yours in disgust,